Language Learning Beliefs

Beliefs, Modelling and Motivation… Do you know what yours are? Here are some brief insights into thought-provoking exercises and techniques to successfully overcome barriers, facilitate fluency and find your goals and motivations to really gain momentum in language learning

Beliefs, Modelling and Motivation… Do you know what yours are?

OK now we are progressing to some of the nitty-gritty of achieving fluency — here are some brief insights into thought-provoking exercises and techniques to successfully overcome barriers, facilitate fluency and find your goals and motivations to really gain momentum in language learning.

Beliefs, modelling and motivation, if correctly aligned, can be the ultimate breakthrough to success….

Let’s start with a short exercise! Get pen and paper and quickly run through this belief appraisal on 2nd language acquisition. Put yourself in the position of you as a student learning a new language; forget being a teacher for the moment.

Write here your presuppositions concerning the acquisition of foreign languages. Don’t take too much time to think about it. Just jot down on paper what comes into your head first and what appears to be the most important or ‘true’ for you.

It may be general remarks, observations, (ex: ‘Chinese is difficult’; ‘grammar…